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High School Shooting Survivors Push for Gun Reform

Students from Florida are leading a rally to demand a ban on assault weapons

Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are leading a rally in Florida's state capital to demand a ban on assault weapons. It is the first organised protest of a youth-led anti-gun movement that has swept the US since the attack on the school a week ago that left 17 people dead.

Also in the programme: Are right-wing parties poised to win Italy's upcoming general election? And the therapeutic value of virtual reality.

(Image: Tyra Hemans, a senior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, speaks with Florida Representative Wengay "Newt" Newton. Credit: REUTERS/Colin Hackley)

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Wed 21 Feb 201821:06GMT

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